Ultrasound and shockwave therapy for acute fractures in adults

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Griffin, Xavier L ^a   Parsons, Nick ^a   Costa, Matthew L ^a   Metcalfe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; LOW INTENSITY ULTRASOUND THERAPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN SWELLING; SMOKING; STRESS FRACTURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TIBIA FRACTURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARM INJURIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, STRESS; LEG INJURIES; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TIME;

ADULT; ARM INJURIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, STRESS; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84964314119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008579.pub3     Document Type: Review

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